How much does Forever Our Rivers Foundation give?

Forever Our Rivers Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $354,343 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Forever Our Rivers Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (81%), Community Improvement (15%), Youth Development (2%).

Who are Forever Our Rivers Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Conservation Legacy ($730k), Grand Staircase - Escalante Partners Inc ($165k), Friends of the Verde River ($135k).

Does Forever Our Rivers Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Forever Our Rivers Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Forever Our Rivers Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Patagoniaorg, Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc.

Where is Forever Our Rivers Foundation based?

Forever Our Rivers Foundation is based in CO.

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Colorado · Private foundation

Forever Our Rivers Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$354k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 6
Grants FY2025: 9
Organizations funded FY2024: 33%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $291,343
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 10; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $725k
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Forever Our Rivers Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHealthAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	6	$354k	50%
FY2024	9	$306k	33%
FY2023	10	$368k	60%
FY2022	8	$215k	25%
FY2021	4	$151k	50%
FY2020	10	$25k	80%
FY2019	1	$1k	100%
FY2018	8	$8k	n/a

94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$872kCommunity Improvement$165kYouth Development$18kArts & Culture$6kHealth$5kAnimals$3kHuman Services$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Conservation Legacy	$730,074	3	1%
Grand Staircase - Escalante Partners Inc	$165,366	3	10%
Friends of the Verde River	$134,737	4	3%
Riversedge West	$114,703	3	9%
Gila Watershed Partnership of Arizona	$76,482	2	7%
Forever Our Rivers	$35,000	1	72%
Lincoln Hills Cares	$17,500	2	1%
Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc	$13,975	4	0%
Friends of Youth and Nature	$12,000	3	3%
Colorado Canyons Association	$11,000	4	1%

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All grantees of Forever Our Rivers Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Conservation Legacy	$730,074	3	1%
Grand Staircase - Escalante Partners Inc	$165,366	3	10%
Friends of the Verde River	$134,737	4	3%
Riversedge West	$114,703	3	9%
Gila Watershed Partnership of Arizona	$76,482	2	7%
Forever Our Rivers	$35,000	1	72%
Lincoln Hills Cares	$17,500	2	1%
Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc	$13,975	4	0%
Friends of Youth and Nature	$12,000	3	3%
Colorado Canyons Association	$11,000	4	1%
High Country Conservation Advocates	$10,750	2	1%
Crested Butte Land Trust	$8,500	1	1%
Colorado Water Trust	$7,000	1	0%
San Juan Citizens Alliance	$6,500	2	0%
Eureka McConnell Science Museum	$5,500	2	0%
Nfria-Wserc Conservation Center Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Casting for Recovery	$5,000	1	0%
Spirit of the Sun Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Roaring Fork Conservancy	$3,500	2	0%
Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation	$2,500	1	0%
The Institute for Environmental Solutions	$2,500	1	3%
Grand Valley Audubon Society	$2,000	1	3%
Purgatoire Watershed Partnership Inc	$1,500	1	n/a
Colorado Riverfront Foundation Inc	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($52k), not named here.

Forever Our Rivers Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO32.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Western Conservation Foundation · National Forest Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Colorado Watershed Assembly · Gates Family Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Xcel Energy Foundation · Conservation Lands Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Forever Our Rivers Foundation

How much does Forever Our Rivers Foundation give?: Forever Our Rivers Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $354,343 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Forever Our Rivers Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (81%), Community Improvement (15%), Youth Development (2%).
Who are Forever Our Rivers Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Conservation Legacy ($730k), Grand Staircase - Escalante Partners Inc ($165k), Friends of the Verde River ($135k).
Does Forever Our Rivers Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Forever Our Rivers Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Forever Our Rivers Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Patagoniaorg, Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Forever Our Rivers Foundation based?: Forever Our Rivers Foundation is based in CO.